Hand-truck.



A. B. KERNDL.

HAND TRUCK. APPLICATION FILED JULY 6, 1909.

Patented Nov. 9, 1909.

. UNITE STATES PATET ADOLPH B. KERNDL, F MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 FRED C. D. TREICI-IEL, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

HAND-TRUCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1909.

J Trucks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in claims, its object being to prevent marring and otherwise damaging of floors by legs of hand-trucks employed thereon and to prevent skidding of the trucks when the same are being loaded.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a side elevation of a hand-truck and illustrates a leg of same provided with a bufferfoot in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a partly sectional side elevation of the butter-foot and a fragment of a truck leg to which said foot is attached; Fig. 3, a sectional view on the plane indicated by line 33 in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4, a similar view indicated by line H in Fig. 1.

Referring by numeral to the drawings, 5 represents the bow and 6 the brace elements of an ordinary form of hand-truck leg, these parts of the leg being suitably bent flat strips of steel having suitable width and thickness. The brace is bolted at one end to the bow and said brace and bow are likewise secured to the truck-frame.

Bolted to the bow of each truck-leg is a buffer-foot 7 of elastic material preferably molded rubber composition, said foot being made to conform to the contour of said leg and provided with a recess 8 in which to receive the head or nut of the bolt 9 by which said bow and the brace for same are fastened together. The heads of the footfastening T-bolts 10 are preferably curvilinear, as herein shown, and the foot is made with bolt-apertures adjacent to its ends. The nuts 11 of the bolts 10 being tightened, the heads of said bolts embed themselves in the foot 7 on which they are straddled, and the head or nut in the recess 8 steadies said foot in its connection with the bow of the truck-leg.

I claim:

1. A buffer-foot provided with apertures adjacent to its ends and with an intermediate clearance recess for the head or nut of the bow and brace securing bolt of a hand-truck leg to which the foot is bolted through, said apertures.

2. A bufier-foot of molded elastic material that conforms in contour to the bow of a hand-truck leg and is provided with aper tures adjacent to its ends and with an intermediate clearance recess for the head or nut of the bow and brace securing bolt of said leg to which the foot is bolted through said apertures.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin in the presence of two witnesses.

ADOLPH B. KERN DL.

Witnesses:

GEORGE G. FELBER, C. J. ABURG. 

